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The Epiphany of the Lord January 5, 2020 Sainte Anne Parish Sainte Anne Parish is a faith community in the Roman Catholic tradition. We strive to live up to the motto: "We Are Family". We see ourselves as a local expression of the universal , the People of , the Body of Christ. Through God's grace we seek to be welcoming and loving. Our life centers on the week- end celebration of the Eucharist. We meet Christ in the Eucharist and are then challenged to bring His love to others.

PARISH OFFICE: WEEKEND MASSES: ...... Saturday 4:00 PM; Sunday 8:30 & 11:00 AM 11 Cleveland St. DAILY MASSES: Monday through Friday………………………….. 9:00 AM TEL: (978) 744-1930 HOLY DAY MASSES: ...... As Announced 9:00-1:00 Mon-Fri ROSARY GROUP & EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: ...... Tuesday 6:30 PM [email protected] CONFESSIONS: ………….....Saturday 3:15 - 3:45 PM or by appointment www.stannesalem.org CHAPEL…………………………………………………….8:00 AM – 5:00 PM ON SATURDAYS THE CHAPEL WILL CLOSE AFTER THE 4:00 P.M. VIGIL MASS. RELIGIOUS ED. OFFICE: 11 Cleveland St. TEL: (978) 745-8915

ELCOME TO NEW ARISHIONERS Please intro- O glorious St. Ann, you are filled with compas- W P : sion for those who invoke you and with love for duce yourself to us after Mass or contact the rectory to regis- those who suffer! Heavily burdened with the ter. weight of my troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take the present inten- SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Baptisms are celebrated on tion which I recommend to you in your special the fourth Sunday of the month at 12:15. A preparation for care. parents and godparents will take place on the second Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM at the rectory. Please Mary, and place it before the throne of Jesus, so that He contact the rectory to arrange a baptism. may bring it to a happy issue. Continue to intercede for me until my request is granted. But, above all, obtain for me MATRIMONY: Please contact the rectory at least six the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you months in advance to arrange for the celebration of your wed- and Mary and all the saints to praise and bless Him for all ding. eternity. Amen. Parish Staff: HOME VISITATION: We are happy to visit for confession, Fr. Maurice Agbaw - Ebai, Administrator holy communion, anointing of the sick etc., anyone who is Charlene Carrier, Coordinator of Religious Education unable to come to church. Please contact the rectory. Stella, Director of Music Ministry Diane Charette, Administrative Assistant ANOINTING OF THE SICK: This sacrament is for anyone Paul L’heureux, Projects Manager who is seriously ill, in a weakened condition, facing surgery, Sacristan, Nancy Gavenda entering hospice care, or near death etc. Please contact the Maintenance & Repairs, Marc Deschenes rectory for this sacrament to be celebrated. Annette Pezzulo, Business Manager

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The Epiphany of the Lord January 5, 2020 This Christmas reflection by Joseph Ratzinger was first published in the Bavarian Catholic journal Hochland (1959/60: 97–100).

The Christmas lights are again shining over our streets, and Christmas shopping is in full swing. For a moment one also lets the Church participate in the heightened economy. In the holy night the places of worship are tightly packed with all the people who then again, for a very long time, will pass by the church portals as something far away and strange that does not concern them. But in this night, for a moment, the Church and the World appear reconciled. It’s so beautiful: the lights, the frankincense, the music, the sight of the people who can still believe, and finally the mysterious ancient message of the child who was once born in Bethlehem and is called the Saviour of the world. That moves us, and yet the concepts that we hear at this time such as redemption, sin and salvation sound like words from a long-gone world. Maybe this world was beautiful, but it is in any case no longer ours. Or is it? The world in which Christmas came was dominated by a feeling very similar to our own. It was a world in which Götterdämmerung was not a slogan but a real event. The old had suddenly become unreal. They did not exist any more. Man could no longer believe what had given meaning and support to life for generations. However, man cannot live without meaning, he needs it like his daily bread. So after the extinction of the old stars he had to keep looking for new lights. But where were they? A broad movement offered him, as a way out, the cult of the “undefeated light”, the sun, which travels its way over the earth day by day, strong and confident in victory, a visible god of this world, as it were. The 25th of December, located in the midst of the winter solstice days, would be annually commem- orated as the birthday of the ever–reborn light, a bright promise that from all destructions a path leads to a new beginning. The liturgy of the sun religion had thus very cleverly appropriated for itself the primeval human fear and primeval hope. The primitive man, who at one time experienced the coming of winter in the long nights of autumn with the ever diminishing power of the sun, had once again wondered with dread: does the golden sun really die? Will it return again? Or will it be defeated by the evil forces of the darkness, sometime, in this or one of the future years, and never return again? The annual winter solstice finally promised its ever re- newed victory. It is the festival that encompasses the hope, yes, the certainty of the indestructibility of the lights of this world. The time when Roman emperors with their cult of the undefeated sun gave new faith to their subjects, new hope – a new meaning in the midst of the unstoppable demise of the old gods – coincided with the time when the Christian faith wooed the heart of the Greco- Roman people. The Christian found in the cult of the sun-god one of his most dangerous opponents. For this sign was far more visible and temptingly erected before the eyes of men than the sign of the Cross, in which the Christian announcement came. Nevertheless, Christianity’s invisible light prevailed over the visible message with which ancient paganism sought to assert itself. The very soon claimed December 25, the birthday of the undefeated light, and celebrated it as the birthday of Christ, in whom they had found the true light of the world. They said to the Gentiles: the sun is good, and we rejoice in its ever-new victory no less than you. But it has no power of its own. It can only be and only has power because God created it. So it manifests light to us from the true light, from God. And one must celebrate the true God, the source of all light, not his work, which would be powerless without him. That’s not all, not even the most important thing. For maybe you have not yet discovered that there is a darkness and cold coming from the darkened heart of man: hatred, injustice, cynical abuse of truth, cruelty and the dishonor of man … At this point it suddenly becomes apparent how exciting this is, how the Christian’s conversation with the Roman sun worshipper is at the same time the dialogue of the believer of today with his unbelieving brother, the incessant dialogue between faith and the world. True, the primitive fear that the sun would one day die does not move us any longer. Physics has long stifled such fears with the cool touch of its clear formulas. The primi- tive fear has gone – but has the fear disappeared completely? Or is man still a creature of fear, so much so that today’s philosophy re- fers to fear as the “basic existential” of man? What period of human history was more afraid of its own future than our own? Maybe today’s human being is bogged down in the present just because he cannot stand to face the future; just thinking about it causes him nightmares. Again: we no longer fear that the sun, conquered by the darkness, could not have returned, only to discover the true darkness which is more terrible in this century of inhumanity than the generations before us could ever conceive of it. We fear that the good in the world will be overcome. We fear that it gradually no longer makes sense to try to seek truth, purity, justice, love, because in the world the law of the strongest prevails, because the passage of the world is right for the unrestrained and the brutal, but not for the saint.

In the event Salem schools are cancelled due to bad weather Mass at Sainte Anne’s will also be cancelled. Opening of the chapel during a storm will depend upon the severity of the weather and the availability of staff to maintain a safe walking environment. All closings will be listed on Boston Channels 4, 5, and 7, and each of their websites, as well as our own website. and our Facebook page.

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SAT JAN 4 Vigil: Epiphany of the Lord 4:00 P.M. PARISH FAMILY SUN JAN 5 Epiphany of the Lord 8:30 A.M. IN HONOR OF ST. JUDE PATRICIA LOUF, BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE By Mark, Kelly & Ben MARTIN FAIR By the Kirby Family Ste Anne Note Cards 11:00 A.M. JOSEPH LAMALFA By his Wife 12 for $4.00 Carl De Cotis By Diane Charette MON JAN 6 Saint Andre Bessette, Religious 9:00 A.M. GLORIA D. JEAN By his Loving wife Grace St. Prayer: In view of the many crises throughout the TUE JAN 7 Saint Raymond o f Penafort, world, in our own country, and in the Church, a growing number of 9:00 A.M. MARTIN FAIR the American bishops are requiring or requesting that the Prayer to By the Kirby Family St. Michael, the , be prayed at the end of every Mass. WED JAN 8 9:00 A.M. CAMERON GAGNON, IMPROVED HEALTH We are now praying this prayer after Daily Mass and on the week- THU JAN 9 ends at all Masses. It is found in the bulletin and can be found on 9:00 A.M. MARIE DAFFE the back cover of the Heritage Missal. This prayer was also prayed FRI JAN 10 after each Mass until the 1960s. Pray it also in your families. 9:00 A.M. BERNADETTE JODOIN SAT JAN 11 Vigil: Baptism of the Lord 4:00 P.M. BRENDAN DUBE AND GERALDINE WARREN By the Warren Family SUN JAN 12 Baptism of the Lord 8:30 A.M. PARISH FAMILY 11:00 A.M. MARTIN FAIR By Ste Anne’s Choir

Tuesday Evening Adoration and Rosary: Please join in the Tuesday evening 6:30p.m. Eucharistic Adoration and Praying of the Holy Rosary. With extra effort we could fill our chapel with praying people. Pray especially for the renewal and growth of Ste. Anne Parish. Mary, the Mother of the Lord, has constantly asked for the daily praying of the Rosary. At the very least try to join in this prayer once a week.

Please Pray for the Ron Budka Larry Blanchard Sick Denise Wells Chris Hall Please Pray for the Military Kayla Campagna Laurie Babbin Jason Boyle Vivian Forrest Jay P. Rob Holloran Nicholas Budka Jason Alexander Madeline St Pierre Jimmy Byrne Sean Patrick Mautone Dorothy Sherry Joan Driscoll Bick Karen Friedrich Keith Lovely Caroline Ouellette Napolina Thompson Peter and Ben Irwin Armen Sarafian Pat Jalbert Marion Blanchette K. Ryan McKinley Pat John Steven Conner (newborn) Arthur D. Connors Steve L. Rita Pelletier Kathleen Levy Raymond Thompson Mary Brien

The Epiphany of the Lord January 5, 2020

Five Year Spiritual Development Plan Sacrament of the Sick: One of the gifts Dear Holy People of God at Ste Anne’s, following the meeting of the of the Second Vatican Council was the Pastoral Council of our parish on Sunday, December 8, 2019, and renewal of the Sacrament of the Anointing with the consent of the same Council, I write to communicate the of the Sick. This beautiful sacrament is no following to you: longer reserved for a person in danger of A Five-Year Spiritual Development Plan for our parish family will death, but should be celebrated by any- constitute the following: one with a serious illness, a person facing Year One: The Year of the Bible serious surgery, or a person in a weak- Year Two: The Year of the Sacraments of Initiation ened condition. The next celebration of Year Three: The Year of Faith: The Blessed Virgin Mary, this sacrament will be following the 8:30 am Mass on Janu- Model of Faith and Discipleship ary 19th. The sacrament is also available for people in their Year Four: The Year of Hope homes by calling the rectory at 978-744-1930. Anyone termi- Year Five: The Year of Love nally ill or beginning Hospice Care should receive this sacra- On this note, I am declaring a Year of the Bible at Ste Anne’s Par- ment as soon as possible. ish, which will run from December 24th, 2019 to December 24th, 2020. In addition, every last Friday of the month, we will have Bible lessons at the Pastoral Centre of our parish, in a series called From STE. ANNE PARISH HAS A GIFT FOR YOU Genesis to Revelation, moderated by me and others from Boston Sainte Anne Parish has purchased a gift for you! Enjoy a free sub- College. This will be an opportunity to deepen our knowledge of the scription to formed.org - an incredible online giveaway to the best Bible with the aid of twelve sessions, beginning January 2020 and Catholic content, all in one place. With FORMED you can: Prepare for Sunday Mass by watching an insightful five-minute video by renowned ending in December 2020. You will get a CERTIFICATE of participa- Catholic teachers; Enjoy a movie with your family that is both enter- tion at the end of the lessons. Come prepared to discover the spiritu- taining and nourishing; Enrich your marriage with an award-winning al treasures of the Bible. video series Beloved; help your children grow in character and em- In addition, I write to present to you the following dates for weekend brace the beauty and wonder of our faith. FORMED provides amaz- retreats in our parish for 2020: ing content 24/7 for you to grow in faith. IT'S EASY AND FREE TO Parish Pastoral Council Weekend Retreat - Spring 2020 REGISTER! Visit https://formed.org with a web browser. Click on CCD Instructors Weekend Retreat - Spring 2020 REGISTER (Lower right page) Enter our Parish Access Code Parish Lenten Retreat (three Sundays of Lent) - Lent 2020 (FT2T74) Enter your email and create a password (you'll need this Women's Weekend Retreat - Summer 2020 to login later!) Check your e-mail to verify your subscription; and Lectors and Ministers of Holy Communion ("Eucharistic Minis- explore. And Best of all it is free. Enjoy and share with others in our local community! ters"), Choirs and Greeters Weekend Retreat - Summer 2020 Men's Weekend Retreat - Fall 2020 Remember Ste. Anne Parish in Your Will: Have you ever con- Parish Advent Retreat – (three Sundays of Advent) - Advent sidered remembering Ste. Anne Parish in your will? Also at the 2020 time of the death of a loved one, memorial donations can be ear- Please kindly note these retreats in your 2020 Calendar. marked for the parish. Include this request in the obituary no- I will be sending out the precise dates ASAP. tice. Many parish communities have benefited greatly from such God is good, all the time, and all the time, God is good (Fr. Mau- memorial gifts. This is a wonderful way to make sure Ste. Anne rice). Parish is on a secure financial footing now and able to continue to serve the community effectively in the future. Think about it and Thank You!

Prayers for and Seminarians: Please pray each day for our Prayer Suggestion Boston priests and Boston seminarians. O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, live in (name a priest), act in him, Saturday Fr. Kenneth Quinn and Jerremy Wagner; speak in him. Think your thoughts in his mind, love through his Sunday – All Bishops and Desmond Conway; heart. Give him your own dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide him always. Correct, enlighten and ex- Monday – Fr. Scott Euvrard and Marcelo Ferrari pand his thoughts and behavior. Possess his soul; take over his Tuesday – Fr. Joseph MacCarthy and Rodrigo Martinez; entire personality and life. Wednesday Fr. Francis Daley and Ryan O’Connell; Replace him with yourself. Incline him to constant adoration and Thursday – Fr. Francis Cloherty and Nicholas Terranova; thanksgiving; pray in and through him. Let him live in you and Friday – Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and Peter Schirripa; keep him in intimate union always. Saturday – Fr. Kenneth Quinn and Jerremy Wagner. O Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mother of Jesus and Mother of priests, pray and intercede for (...) Amen

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By Dr. Scott Hahn A King to Behold Feast of the Epiphany (Cycle A) Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:-12,7-8, 10-13 Ephesians 3:2-3,5-6 Matthew 2:1-12

An "epiphany" is an appearance. In today's readings, with their rising stars, splendorous lights and mysteries revealed, the face of the child born on Christmas day appears.

Herod, in today's , asks the chief priests and scribes where the is to be born. The answer Matthew puts on their lips says much more, combining two strands of Old Testament promise - one revealing the Messiah to be from the line of David (see 2 2:5), the other predicting "a ruler of Israel" who will "shepherd his flock" and whose "greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth" (see Micah 5:1-3).

Those promises of Israel's king ruling the nations resound also in today's Psalm. The psalm celebrates David's son, Solo- mon. His kingdom, we sing, will stretch "to the ends of the earth," and the world's kings will pay Him homage. That's the scene too in today's First Reading, as nations stream from the East, bearing "gold and frankincense" for Israel's king.

The 's pilgrimage in today's Gospel marks the fulfillment of God's promises. The Magi, probably Persian astrologers, are following the star that predicted would rise along with the ruler's staff over the house of (see Numbers 24:17).

Laden with gold and spices, their journey evokes those made to by the Queen of and the "kings of the earth" (see :2,25; :24). Interestingly, the only other places where frankincense and myrrh are mentioned together are in songs about Solomon (see 3:6, 4:6,14).

One greater than Solomon is here (see Luke 11:31). He has come to reveal that all peoples are "co-heirs" of the royal fam- ily of Israel, as today's Epistle teaches.

His manifestation forces us to choose: Will we follow the signs that lead to Him as the wise Magi did? Or will we be like those priests and the scribes who let God's words of promise become dead letters on an ancient page?

A service of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology www.SalvationHistory.com

PRAYER BOX 500 club open numbers will be sold after all masses the next few Sainte Anne's Tuesday Rosary group weekends starting Dec 28th and Dec 29th. Cash or checks payable has always strived to bring the inten- to Ste. Anne's will be accepted. The cost is $50.00 for the year tions of all to our Blessed Mother. To when paid by the 3rd Sunday in January. Also call me at 978-204- help in that endeavor a "Prayer Box" 2513 if interested in a number. has graciously been donated by one of the group's members. Dur- ing the week the box will be on the table at the rear of the main church along with a small pad of paper and a pen. Anyone wishing to ask for the intercession of Mary may place their request in the box. On Tuesday evening during the Rosary the box will be placed

at the feet of the Statue of our Blessed Mother.

Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. Merry ChristMas!

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